Accidental Darlings

Accidental DarlingsAuthor: Jeans, Crystal Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest Published on 22 May 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (The Borough Press) in the United Kingdom. Paperback softback 336 pages 197 x 130 x 23 228g 'Delightfully subversive, I loved it' RED The darkly funny new novel from Polari Prize shortlisted author Crystal Jeans, inspired in part by Dickens' Great Expectations Its 1924, and the village of Skimpole is full of secrets. When Anastasias mother

Author: Jeans, Crystal

Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest

Published on 22 May 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (The Borough Press) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 336 pages
197 x 130 x 23 | 228g

'Delightfully subversive, I loved it' RED

The darkly funny new novel from Polari Prize-shortlisted author Crystal Jeans, inspired in part by Dickens' Great Expectations…

It’s 1924, and the village of Skimpole is full of secrets.

When Anastasia’s mother dies, she must move in with ‘the Aunt’ – a writer, too fearsome for a first name, who lives in a dilapidated mansion with her dogs.

But mysteries abound: who wrote the raunchy love letters she discovers in the Aunt’s bedroom, signed ‘Big Willy’? Why do the villagers hate the Aunt so much? And how did Anastasia’s father, who passed before she was born, really die?

When the Aunt’s friends arrive at the house one summer, wreathed in cigarette smoke and an air of debauchery, Anastasia may be closer to finding answers – but the truth will turn her world upside down…